“O LORD SUPPORT US ALL THE DAY LONG OF THIS TROUBLOUS LIFE UNTIL THE SHADES LENGTHEN AND THE EVENING COME AND THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, THE FEVER OF LIFE IS OVER AND OUR WORK IS DONE.” “THEN LORD IN THY MERCY GRANT US SAFE LODGING, A HOLY REST AND PEACE AT THE LAST THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN.”
BEAR IN MIND THE MEN FROM DETHICK, LEA AND HOLLOWAY WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918
Sources used: Soldiers Died in the Great War CD-Rom Commonwealth War Graves Commission Ancestry Library and Archives Canada National Archives of Australia
“O LORD SUPPORT US ALL THE DAY LONG OF THIS TROUBLOUS LIFE UNTIL THE SHADES LENGTHEN AND THE EVENING COME AND THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, THE FEVER OF LIFE IS OVER AND OUR WORK IS DONE.”
“THEN LORD IN THY MERCY GRANT US SAFE LODGING, A HOLY REST AND PEACE AT THE LAST THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN.”
BEAR IN MIND THE MEN FROM DETHICK, LEA AND HOLLOWAY WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918
PTE. ARTHUR BROWN
AGED 19
PTE. STANLEY CLARKSTONE
AGED 19
PTE. ERNEST DAVIS
AGED 28
PTE. FREDERICK GEORGE HAWLEY
AGED 34
PTE. THOMAS HODGKINSON
AGED 30
CPL. WILLIAM HODGKINSON, M.M.
AGED 22
CPL. WILLIAM ANDREW HUGHES
AGED 26
2/LT. GEORGE FUTVOYE MARSDEN-SMEDLEY
AGED 19
PTE. HAROLD MARSH
AGED 20
L/CPL. NORMAN BYWATER MIERS
AGED 44
PTE. HAROLD OAKLEY
AGED 20
PTE. JACK PEACH
AGED 43
PTE. HARRY ALFRED THORPE
AGED 19
GUNR. ARTHUR WALKER
AGED 29
2/LT. GEORGE FRANCIS WALKER
AGED 40
LET US NEVER FORGET THE MEN OF THE PARISH OF DETHICK, LEA & HOLLOWAY WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 – 1945
WILLIAM COLIN EUGENE BROOMHEAD
AGED 26
ARTHUR BUSH
AGED 18
WILLIAM STANLEY NEWTON
AGED 32
Sources used:
Soldiers Died in the Great War CD-Rom
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry
Library and Archives Canada
National Archives of Australia
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